Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake
Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sig's lighter yuletide cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sig's lighter yuletide cake using 29 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:
  1. Take cake
  2. Get 225 grams butter softened plus extra for greasing
  3. Make ready 2 tbsp Brandy
  4. Get 1 pinch saffron about 1/4 strand
  5. Make ready 225 grams golden castor sugar
  6. Get 4 eggs
  7. Prepare 225 grams plain flour
  8. Prepare 50 grams ground almonds
  9. Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
  10. Take 300 grams each of raisins and sultanas
  11. Make ready 100 grams natural coloured glacé cherries
  12. Make ready 85 grams mixed peel
  13. Take 50 grams each,whole blanched almonds and hazelnuts or other nuts of preference,roughly chopped
  14. Take 50 grams walnut pieces,to soak, this can be repeated twice more
  15. Prepare 3 tbsp brandy extra
  16. Make ready 2 tbsp honey that is runny
  17. Make ready decoration
  18. Prepare 1 eggwhite
  19. Take 50 grams castor sugar
  20. Get 1 small bunch black grapes
  21. Take 2 small sprigs of holly
  22. Take 2 clementines
  23. Make ready 2 just ripe figs
  24. Prepare 2 kumquats, or if difficult to get hold of any small fruit or slices that you like to eat
  25. Get 4 cape gooseberries(physalis)
  26. Make ready 1 length 65 cm of cake ribbon
  27. Prepare frosting (no marzipan, no icing, as done on the finished bottom picture, my granddaughters effort from last year, I was so proud of her.)
  28. Take 2 egg whites, fresh
  29. Make ready 180 grams icing sugar/ powder sugar

Cut the cherries into quarters, put in a sieve and rinse under running water then. Or you can go for our traditional, best-ever Christmas cake. Buttered Rum Christmas Cake For our. This light Christmas cake recipe makes a cake of particularly fine texture.

Instructions to make Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:
  1. Heat oven 160 C, double line deep 20 cm cake tin with baking parchment.Tie a few sheets of brown paper around the outside,level with parchment.Heat 2 tbls of brandy in small pan, infuse saffron for a few minutes whilst pan is off heat.Put the butter,sugar,eggs,flour,almonds,baking powder and a pinch of salt into s bowl mix mix until soft and creamy.Mix saffron brandy,fruit and nuts and mix into the batter.
  2. Spoon the mixture into tin,make a slight dip in the middle.Bake for one and a half hours,cover loosely with foil,turn oven down to 140C and cook for one more hour or until skewer comes out clean.
  3. Leave to cool in tin,whilst still warm prod the cake all over with skewer,mix brandy and honey together and spoon over cake.Wrap up airtight and feed cake with more honey and brandy mixture as often as you like.This cake can be made up to 6 weeks in advance.
  4. Put a large bowl over a pan of simmering water,make sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water.Put the 2 eggwhites and icing sugar into bowl whisk for 5-7 minutes until you have a thick very glossy frosting,folding all mixture in as you go along.Spread over cake creating snow like effect.Half the other fruits and arrange on top of cake,fix ribbon around base.
  5. For decoration and frosting: lightly beat eggwhite.Spread out extrs fine /castor sugar on a baking sheet.Dip grapes and holly in eggwhite coat withsugarmake the frosting.
  6. The lighter (no marzipan, no iicing) decoration and frosting is best made on the day that you serve the cake. My grandmas this one.

Buttered Rum Christmas Cake For our. This light Christmas cake recipe makes a cake of particularly fine texture. Only the whites of the eggs are used, but if you make a dark fruit cake at the same time you can use the yolks of the eggs in the dark cake. This substitution would not be satisfactory in a cake. The key to a stress free Christmas is to prepare as much as you can in advance recipes so you can sit back, relax and enjoy more time with your guests, with the assurance that you're already for Christmas.

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